The rail splitter

by: Leib, Charles, d. 1865

Publication date: 1860

Topics: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861, Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861, Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ), Presidents, Presidential candidates, Political campaigns

Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : C. Leib

Collection: lincolncollection; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

Contributor: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection

Language: English

Volume: Vol. 1, no. 8

Shares same title with a Cincinnati newspaper also issued in 1860; the Cincinnati newspaper has a different nameplate and was issued independently

Editor: Charles Leib

Lincoln lore

Campaign newspaper for Abraham Lincoln in the presidential campaign of 1860

Broadside supplement announces publication of newspaper

Lincoln collection has a supplement; v. 1, no. 1-18 (June 23-Oct. 27, 1860); and a special number issued Sept. 3, 1860

Supplement: Sheet, edges trimmed, holes punched along right edge ; Clippings on Lincoln Day celebrations and on opposition against display of John Wilkes Booth's relics, excised from unidentified periodicals, mounted on card affixed to verso

Vol. 1, no. 1-18: Folders ; Text in six columns ; Advertisements on p. [4]

Vol. 1, no. 8 (Aug. 11, 1860): Printing error on p. [4]

Vol. 1, no. 13 (Sept. 15, 1860): Signature in pencil on p. [1]: D.E.T. [or D.C.T.?] Chapman

Special number (Sept. 3, 1860): Folder ; Text in eight columns ; Advertisements on p. [3]

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